Im sitting here re watching the episode with George and Jrocs fight. And Serra was talking trash about Jroc. Saying he is Matt Hughes BOY..He said Jroc was playing a tough role for Hughes. I wouldnt think Matt Serra is racist. Actually of the two of them Id say Hughes would be more likely to be. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else caught that and thought it was derogatory, or if he didnt mean it like that.

Isn't Jroc Matt Hughes 'boy as Serra put it?

It is clear that what Serra said was taken out of context by you. If he called him a n*gger etc then I would say outrage is warranted.

I don't see colour I just believe people when they say I'm white cause it's easy to get a taxi.

Saying "boy" about a black person is only derogatory if you said it in the South where it could theoretically be considered a slur. By the same token, nobody bats an eye in the States when u say "bugger" but in canada or UK not a good idea at all.

Having said that, Matt Serra doesn't offend me any more than any other bigmouth athlete, and there's a lot of them.

I was deeply offended. I cried for hours and hours in a dark lonely corner.

People are way too sensitive about racism. Yes, slavery was a shitty thing. But looking for racism in everything just perpetuates more racism. Let those that still practice it rot in their ignorance. I doubt what Serra said was racist in any way. Mocking? Perhaps.

J-farrell's claims would have been off base if the comment was just left at "he is Hughes's boy" but when he said "am I doing it right" "am I doing it like I am suppose to" "mr Hughes".

That was all the confirmation I needed to know there was definitely some racial connotations behind it. And no you donít need to be from the south to make such a statement you just need to be an ignorant caucasian.

However making a post like this in a forum dominated by white posters is kind of pointless. Most whites folks are perpetrators of or hardly ever have to deal with racism, so they when situations like this arise they struggle to read between the lines.

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